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R Kelly could spend REST OF HIS LIFE in prison after prosecutors want 25 years added to 30-year sentence

The prosecutors stated, 'Only way to ensure Kelly does not re-offend is to impose a sentence that will keep him in prison for the rest of his life'

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: Federal prosecutors reportedly want R Kelly to serve a total of 55 years in jail as they have submitted new documents demanding 25 years of jail time for his Chicago conviction. They also want that his prison time in Chicago start only after his ongoing 30-year sentencing in New York gets over. In September 2022, the sex offender was found guilty of child pornography and enticement in Chicago, but he was not sentenced at the time.

In June last year, he was convicted of abusing multiple women and underage girls and boys in a Brooklyn federal court in New York. After which, he was awarded three decades of prison life and as per reports, and is currently imprisoned at the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center.

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‘Poses a serious danger to society'

The Associated Press reported that if the judge goes on to grant the over two decades of sentencing as demanded by the prosecutors, who are also seeking a non-parallel jail time, the Grammy winning-singer would not be a free man until he will be nearly 100 years old.

Terming the 56-year-old man “sadistic” and “a serial sexual predator” in their 37-page request to the US District Court in Chicago, on Thursday, February 16, the prosecutors stated that he “poses a serious danger to society and the only way to ensure Kelly does not re-offend is to impose a sentence that will keep him in prison for the rest of his life.”

‘None will die in prison'

This comes as Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is scheduled to appear in court next week for his Chicago sentencing. His attorney Jennifer Bonjean has reportedly requested for lenient sentencing of ten years as she pointed out, “Kelly would have to defy all statistical odds to make it out of prison alive,” while referring to statistics that calculate that the average life expectancy of prisoners is 64.

The lawyer also compared the conviction rate of Black artists to that of Whites in similar cases. She asserted, “None have been prosecuted and none will die in prison,” before bringing in Kelly’s childhood struggles. “[He] is not an evil monster but a complex (unquestionably troubled) human being who faced overwhelming challenges in childhood that shaped his adult life. While Kelly was not a child in the late 1990s, he also was not the middle-aged man he was at the time of his 2019 indictment. Kelly was a damaged man in his late 20s,” Bonjean added.

But prosecutors do not agree with the defense as they said in the papers, “A consecutive sentence is eminently reasonable given the egregiousness of Kelly’s conduct. Kelly’s sexual abuse of minors was intentional and prolific.”

‘Hope he has to serve every minute of these sentences!’

The latest update in Kelly’s case has attracted people’s attention online as well, as a user tweeted, “I don’t see nothin wrong.” Another user wrote, “Hope he has to serve every minute of these sentences!” The third user shared, “A bullet would work just as well and save lots of money.”

The fourth user said, “It's the Remix to his Sentencing.” The fourth one commented, “Being a pedophile should be an automatic life sentence.”

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